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Absolute power : how the pope became the most influential man in the world / Paul Collins.

Summary:

The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781610398602
  • ISBN: 1610398602
  • Physical Description: xv, 366 pages : map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Extinction? -- A death in Valence -- The "new consciousness" and "neo-ultramontanism" -- From "supreme power" to supreme pontiff -- Tackling a whole new world -- "God and the revolver!" -- "Obbedire, Obey" -- Pontificating on everything -- Rolling out and rolling back Vatican II -- Good Pope John -- "Throwing open the windows" -- The Polish colossus -- "The smell of the sheep" -- "Reform of the reform" -- The "field hospital" -- Death and resurrection.
Subject:
Papacy > History.
Popes > Temporal power.
Roman question.
Vatican City > History.
Papal States > History > 1815-1870.

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